Topics: Research Excellence
UBC hosts road safety symposium featuring international experts
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With the number of car crashes resulting in injury or death increasing every year, the need to make our roads safer has never been more urgent. But as traffic worsens, potentially attention-diverting technologies proliferate and substance…
Turkey 2-Part Tourney terrifies (and delights) APSC community
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As if the approach of another Vancouver winter weren’t scary enough, today UBC Applied Science hosted its second annual Turkey 2-Part Tourney — a Halloween-themed competition that struck mortal fear into the hearts of everyone in attendance.After…
Mangrove Water Technologies awarded $5 million in global carbon reduction competition
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UBC spin-off company Mangrove Water Technologies has won the Emissions Reduction Alberta Grand Challenge, a five-year, three-stage global competition aimed at accelerating the development of innovative technologies or processes that can turn carbon…
UBC lab spins nanofibre "gold" from waste fabrics
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In the materials engineering labs at UBC, surrounded by Bunsen burners, microscopes and spinning machines, professor Frank Ko and research scientist Addie Bahi have developed a simple process for converting waste cotton into much…
UBC student becomes inventor to help brother with muscular dystrophy
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In response, Michael, currently in his fourth year in UBC’s engineering physics program, turned to technology and his knack for invention to help his brother do simple tasks and find a measure of enjoyment in life.Daniel, now 28, was diagnosed with…
UBC T-cell therapy research gets boost from Collaborative Health Research Projects grant
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The article below originally appeared on the website of UBC's Michael Smith Laboratories.
UBC researchers design roadmap for hydrogen supply network across B.C.
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Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in British Columbia. Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a hydrogen supply chain model that can enable the adoption of zero-emission, hydrogen-powered cars…
Tropini named Cifar Azrieli Global Scholar
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UBC’s Carolina Tropini, an Assistant Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, has been named as one of fourteen inspiring early-career researchers named across five CIFAR research programs.
Projects co-led by APSC researchers to receive nearly 2M in federal health research funding
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UBC Engineering researchers and their collaborators in the UBC Faculty of Medicine will receive almost $2 million in funding from the Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) program, a Government of…
UBC, U Paris researchers discover new way to recycle CO2
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University of British Columbia (UBC) and University of Paris researchers have used an abundant and low-cost catalyst to efficiently transform carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, a stable, industrial gas. The research — published in Science —…